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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. History class.

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Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

The Hechinger Report

Eventually the school superintendent, who doubles as a special education teacher and a substitute, asked if he’d be interested in doing more; the schools have been short-staffed for years. million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts.

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Florida Rejects 35% of Social Studies Texts as Too Leftist

Diane Ravitch

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. history and world history courses. The Legislature last year passed what the governor dubbed his “stop woke” act that outlaws the teaching of the concept in public schools.